Zach Bohannon

Bear in mind that I’m a New York Times bestselling author. Of nonfiction. It’s a whole different country.

, and I’m going to say something mean to you: you can read this book and go back to not publishing a novel.

The only people who read forewords are authors. That’s something in your favor. N

In fact, most brilliant ideas die somewhere between inception and the creation of that blank document titled, “Chapter 1.”

When I asked Seth Godin how he decides on which project to begin, he told me, “I don’t have a method. I simply know that I must choose. Most people don’t embrace that.” Pure Seth. Once you’ve embraced that reality, how do you move forward?

Systems work. Even for creatives.

We hate deadlines, but the quality of our stories would suffer without them—

We hate deadlines, but the quality of our stories would suffer without them—

But those boundaries don’t need to be restrictive or formulaic. Three Story Method is a process, not a formula.

he does the first drafting, and I do the rev